A framework for FAIR robotic datasets

C Motta, S Aracri, R Ferretti, M Bibuli, G Bruzzone… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
It is essential to publish and make available environmental data gathered by emerging
robotic platforms to contribute to the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), supported by …

Unav-sim: A visually realistic underwater robotics simulator and synthetic data-generation framework

A Amer, O Álvarez-Tuñón, Hİ Uğurlu… - 2023 21st …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Underwater robotic surveys can be costly due to the complex working environment and the
need for various sensor modalities. While underwater simulators are essential, many …

Sonar-based Deep Learning in Underwater Robotics: Overview, Robustness and Challenges

M Aubard, A Madureira, L Teixeira, J Pinto - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
With the growing interest in underwater exploration and monitoring, Autonomous
Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have become essential. The recent interest in onboard Deep …

HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy

E Potokar, K Lay, K Norman, D Benham… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the difficulty and expense of underwater field trials, a high-fidelity underwater
simulator is a necessity for testing and developing algorithms. To fill this need, we present …

Human-Machine Interfaces for Subsea Telerobotics: From Soda-straw to Natural Language Interactions

A Abdullah, R Chen, D Blow, T Uthai, EJ Du… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This review explores the evolution of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for subsea
telerobotics, tracing back the transition from traditional first-person" soda-straw" consoles …

A Search Strategy and Vessel Detection in Maritime Environment Using Fixed-Wing UAVs

M Peti, A Milas, N Kraševac… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we address the problem of autonomous search and vessel detection in an
unknown GNSS-denied maritime environment with fixed-wing UAVs. The main challenge in …

LIDAR-based USV close approach to vessels for manipulation purposes

F Ferreira, N Kraševac, J Obradović… - OCEANS 2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) are used in a variety of applications today. They can
also be used in multi-robot systems together with Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) …

Comparing different yolo versions for boat detection and classification in real datasets

A Correira, F Ferreira, N Mišković - OCEANS 2024-Singapore, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Boat detection and classification is extremely im-portant for tasks such as autonomous
navigation of unmanned vessels with collision avoidance or target identification (maritime …

Towards robot-aided diver navigation in mapped environments (ROADMAP)

Đ Nađ, F Ferreira, I Kvasić, L Mandić… - OCEANS 2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technical dives are challenging as they often involve inhospitable sites with limited or no
visibility, dangerous or cluttered environments and are under a constant influence of …

Aquatic Navigation: A Challenging Benchmark for Deep Reinforcement Learning

D Corsi, D Camponogara, A Farinelli - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20534, 2024 - arxiv.org
An exciting and promising frontier for Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is its application
to real-world robotic systems. While modern DRL approaches achieved remarkable …